Shipbuilding Boom - Clyde Yards On Full Time (1938)
Titles read: “SHIPBUILDING BOOM - CLYDE YARDS ON FULL TIME“.
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River Clyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
Visuals cut in to show various shots of the shipyards on the River Clyde; workers walking along. Several L/Ss of the 552 liner ship (sister ship of the Queen Mary) being built; closer shots of men working on the vessel.
Section with natural sound shows two shipbuilders talking to each other about how pleased they are to be back in work (a few seconds of the footage is missing in the middle of the sequence). M/S panning across a group of workers. More shots of ships being built on the Clyde as ’Rule Britannia’ is heard on the soundtrack.
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